Four Songs for Voice and Orchestra, op. 22. Seraphita

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Title	Four Songs for Voice and Orchestra, op. 22. Seraphita
Playing time	00:03:37
Authors	Schönberg, Arnold [Komponist/in] [GND]
Contributors	Rosbaud, Hans [Dirigent] [GND] Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk [Produzent]
Place	Berlin, Wohnung Schönberg / Schönberg’s residence [Ortsbezug]
Keywords	Musik ; E-Musik ; Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme
	20. Jahrhundert - 20er Jahre 20. Jahrhundert - 30er Jahre
Type	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Language	Englisch
Signature	Österreichische Mediathek, e11-00200_b02_k02
Media type	Mp3-Audiodatei

Arnold Schönberg’s residence, Berlin. Arnold Schönberg Center, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

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From May 1913 to August 1915 Schönberg lived in Berlin Südende, Berliner Straße 17a, in the house of Albertine Zehme, who commissioned his successful work “Pierrot lunaire” op. 21. He began working on his “Four Songs for Voice and Orchestra” op. 22 there. It was not until 1932 that the score was premiered, despite its publication in 1917. Hans Rosbaud conducted the premiere in a concert with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, for which Schönberg was invited to hold an introductory talk. His thoughts reflect the considerable compositional development that his œuvre had undergone since completion of the work: “Around 1908 I had […] taken the first step into that area of composition, falsely called atonal, which is characterized by the relinquishing of a tonal center and of the methods of dissonance treatment that were accepted up until then. […] At the time that I wrote these songs [op. 22], I had already overcome the initial difficulties of the new style to a certain extent, even though it was only through the composition with twelve tones that the formal possibilities of an absolute music were unshackled and broke through, freed from all influence of extra-musical elements.” (Arnold Schönberg, “Analysis of the Four Orchestral Songs op. 22”, 1932) (Text: Arnold Schönberg Center)

Collection history

Sammlung Schönberg

Im Rahmen einer Kooperation mit dem Arnold Schönberg Center sichert die Österreichische Mediathek seit April 2019 die Schallplattensammlung des Komponisten digital. Der Nachlass Arnold Schönbergs steht seit 1998 im Arnold Schönberg Center in Wien zur Verfügung.

Die Sammlung umfasst über 400 Schallplatten mit eigenen Kompositionen, fremden Werken sowie vereinzelten Sprachaufnahmen. Professionelle Produktionen stehen neben dokumentarischen Mitschnitten. Schönberg war technischen Neuerungen aufgeschlossen und nutzte Medien zur Tonaufzeichnung auf vielfältige Weise. Die frühesten Audio-Dokumente gehen auf Arnold Schönbergs Zeit in Berlin und sein zunehmendes Engagement für den Rundfunk zurück, dessen Potenzial zur Verbreitung aktueller Musik er bereits früh erkannte. Frühe Tonträger der Sammlung entstanden oft als Versuchsaufnahmen im Kontext von Radioübertragungen. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden seine Schallplatten wichtiges Kommunikationsmittel im Kontakt mit Europa.

2011 wurde der Schönberg-Nachlass von der UNESCO in das Weltdokumentenerbe-Register (Memory of the World) aufgenommen.

Zur Sammlungsgeschichte siehe auch <link>https://www.schoenberg.at/images/stories/bilder_statische_artikel/archiv/ethikbewahrens.pdf<link>

In cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center, the Österreichische Mediathek digitally preserved the composer's record collection in April 2019. Arnold Schönberg’s Estate was made available at the Arnold Schönberg in 1998, after the collection had been moved from Los Angeles.

The composer owned over 400 phonograph discs with his own compositions, works by other composers, and also the occasional voice recording. Professional productions are found alongside documentative recordings. Schönberg was open to technical innovations and used sound recording media in various ways. The earliest audio documents stem from the composer’s time spent in Berlin and his increasing commitment to the radio, whose potential for broadcasting contemporary music to a larger audience was recognized by Schönberg at a very early stage. Early sound storage media from Schönberg’s collection often contain test recordings for radio broadcasts and only excerpts of the compositions played. And after the war, phonograph discs were an important means of communication with Europe.

In 2011 Schönberg’s Estate was inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

For the history of the collection see also <link>https://www.schoenberg.at/images/stories/bilder_statische_artikel/archiv/ethikbewahrens.pdf<link>

Location in the digital collection

Keywords

Musik ; E-Musik , Unveröffentlichte Aufnahme

Part of the collection

Sammlung Schönberg

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Arnold Schönberg – Biography